Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies: UK Boundaries as of December 2021

Digital vector boundaries for all Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the United Kingdom, current as of December 2021. This dataset from the Government Digital Service contains Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property. Boundaries are ultra-generalised at a 500m scale and clipped to the coastline.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral district boundaries for visual analysis based on the provided vector data.
• Conducting spatial joins with demographic or election result data based on constituency polygons.
• Creating basemaps for political or regional planning applications based on the ultra-generalised boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot of boundaries as of December 2021.
• Boundaries are ultra-generalised (500m), which may simplify analysis and visualization.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative UK sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries from Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics.

Time Range

December 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2023-03-21 10:47:46.732000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom